Energy-Saving Methods for Urban Travel and Public Transportation in Smart Cities

In many countries, energy-saving and emissions mitigation for urban travel and public transportation are important for smart city developments. It is essential to understand the impact of smart transportation (ST) in public transportation in the context of energy savings in smart cities. The general strategy and significant ideas in developing ST for smart cities, focusing on deep learning technologies, simulation experiments, and simultaneous formulation, are in progress. This study hence presents simultaneous transportation monitoring and management frameworks (STMF ). STMF has the potential to be extended to the next generation of smart transportation infrastructure. The proposed framework consists of community signal and community traffic, ST platforms and applications, agent-based traffic control, and transportation expertise augmentation. Experimental outcomes exhibit better quality metrics of the proposed STMF technique in energy saving and emissions mitigation for urban travel and public transportation than other conventional approaches. The deployed system improves the accuracy, consistency, and F-1 measure by 27.50%, 28.81%, and 31.12%. It minimizes the error rate by 75.35%.

Intelligent Traffic Signal Phase Distribution System Using Deep Q-Network

Traffic congestion is a worsening problem owing to an increase in traffic volume. Traffic congestion increases the driving time and wastes fuel, generating large amounts of fumes and accelerating environmental pollution. Therefore, traffic congestion is an important problem that needs to be addressed. Smart transportation systems manage various traffic problems by utilizing the infrastructure and networks available in smart cities. The traffic signal control system used in smart transportation analyzes and controls traffic flow in real time. Thus, traffic congestion can be effectively alleviated. We conducted preliminary experiments to analyze the effects of throughput, queue length, and waiting time on the system performance according to the signal allocation techniques. Based on the results of the preliminary experiment, the standard deviation of the queue length is interpreted as an important factor in an order allocation technique. A smart traffic signal control system using a deep Q-network , which is a type of reinforcement learning, is proposed. The proposed algorithm determines the optimal order of a green signal. The goal of the proposed algorithm is to maximize the throughput and efficiently distribute the signals by considering the throughput and standard deviation of the queue length as reward parameters.

Comparing Machine Learning Models for the Predictions of Speed in Smart Transportation Systems

In today's world of advanced technologies in IoT and ITS in smart cities scenarios, there are many different projections such as improved data propagation in smart roads and cooperative transportation networks, autonomous and continuously connected vehicles, and low latency applications in high capacity environments and heterogeneous connectivity and speed. This chapter presents the performance of the speed of vehicles on roadways employing machine learning methods. Input variable for each learning algorithm is the density that is measured as vehicle per mile and volume that is measured as vehicle per hour. And the result shows that the output variable is the speed that is measured as miles per hour represent the performance of each algorithm. The performance of machine learning algorithms is calculated by comparing the result of predictions made by different machine learning algorithms with true speed using the histogram. A result recommends that speed is varying according to the histogram.

Role of Big Data in Internet of Things Networks

With recent advancement in cyber-physical systems and technological revolutions, internet of things is the focus of research in industry as well as in academia. IoT is not only a research and technological revolution but in fact a revolution in our daily life. It is considered a new era of smart lifestyle and has a deep impact on everyday errands. Its applications include but are not limited to smart home, smart transportation, smart health, smart security, and smart surveillance. A large number of devices connected in all these application networks generates an enormous amount of data. This leads to problems in data storage, efficient data processing, and intelligent data analytics. In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of big data and related challenges in IoT networks and various data analytics platforms, used for the IoT domain. In addition to this, they present and discuss the architectural model of big data in IoT along with various future research challenges. Afterward, they discuss smart health and smart transportation as a case study to supplement the presented architectural model.

HST Communication Network by Integration of Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization

The new challenges introduced in the wireless communication systems by the rapid developments of high-speed trains (HSTs) and more usage of the smartphones. The smart transportation involves the large crowd with smart phones, that requires a more efficient network for communication without disconnection. To achieve that, the handover process, need to be done quickly with respect to the speed of the train. To sustain its session connectivity to the internet, it requires the disconnection from the current access point (APc) to the next access point (APn). IN this project, we use the open flow and open stack protocols for integrating the interface between the infrastructure and the controller. Along with this, the integration of software-defined networking and network function virtualization is also done. The project majorly concentrated on the modification of the routes of the packet flow from one access point to the next required access point with the use of the triggering signal from the train which gives the location of the train. The suggested method works by the transmitting the signal from train to the next access point in advance so that the SDN controller changes the path of the packets to the next access point. The parameters like Signal strength, packet loss, average delay, path delay is evaluated. Along with these parameters the energy dissipation near the network also evaluated. The experimental results are evaluated using MATLAB tool. Keywords: Network Function Virtualization, OpenFlow in SDN, OpenStack, Software Defined Network.

Cross-Attention Fusion Based Spatial-Temporal Multi-Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

Accurate traffic flow prediction is essential to building a smart transportation city. Existing research mainly uses a given single-graph structure as a model, only considers local and static spatial dependencies, and ignores the impact of dynamic spatio-temporal data diversity. To fully capture the characteristics of spatio-temporal data diversity, this paper proposes a cross-Attention Fusion Based Spatial-Temporal Multi-Graph Convolutional Network (CAFMGCN) model for traffic flow prediction. First, introduce GCN to model the historical traffic data’s three-time attributes (current, daily, and weekly) to extract time features. Second, consider the relationship between distance and traffic flow, constructing adjacency, connectivity, and regional similarity graphs to capture dynamic spatial topology information. To make full use of global information, a cross-attention mechanism is introduced to fuse temporal and spatial features separately to reduce prediction errors. Finally, the CAFMGCN model is evaluated, and the experimental results show that the prediction of this model is more accurate and effective than the baseline of other models.